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Shop nowThe Civil Rights Movement
Narrator
Robert Wikstrom
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Length
9 hours 33 minutes
Language
English
Summary
Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the “separate but equal” doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed. Civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. This product tells a part of that historic time with speeches from many of those attempting to achieve racial equality.
Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom
Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, 6/5/1956President John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Address to the Nation, 6/11/1963Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Rally Address, 5/16/1963March on Washington, 8/28/63, Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Daisy Bates, Bayard RustinMalcolm X, Message to the Grass Roots, 1/23/1963Andrew Young, Reflections on MLK and Malcolm XPresident Lyndon Johnson, Signing Civil Rights Bill, 7/2/1964James Farmer, Speech on Poverty, 10/15/1965Roy Wilkins, Address at UCLA, 12/2/1965Martin Luther King Jr., National Health Care Workers Address, 3/10/1968Martin Luther King Jr., “Been to the Mountaintop,” 4/3/1968Robert F. Kennedy, Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 4/4/1968Coretta Scott King, Reflections on Civil Rights MovementStokley Carmichael, Civil Rights Rally AddressElla Baker, “Life is more sacred than property,” 4/24/1968Angela Davis, Address at UCLA, 10/8/1969Ralph Abernathy, Committee for Economic Opportunity, 8/15/1987Nelson Mandela, Address to Joint Session of Congress, 6/26/1990Rosa Parks, Speech at the Million Man March, 10/16/1995Dorothy Height, Human Rights Campaign, 11/8/1997Desmond Tutu, “Reconciling Love,” 11/4/2005Julian Bond, Speech at National Equality March, 10/11/2009Roy Innis, Receiving John M. Ashbrook Award, 2/18/2010Jesse Jackson, Fiftieth Anniversary of March on Washington, 8/29/2013President Barack Obama, Civil Rights Summit, 4/10/2014